Coffee-pot.



Patented Oct. I7, 1899M F. ACKER.

COFFEE PDT.

(Application filed Jan. 27, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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FINLEY AOKER, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR 'ro FINLEY AoKER a 00., or SAME PLACE.

COFFEE-POT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,117, dated October 17, 1899.

I Application filed January 27,1899. Serial No. 703,529. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern; mat at the periphery of the latter and escap- Be it known that I, FINLEY AOKER, a citiing through and clogging the perforations of zen of the United States, residing in the city the base F, and thus the fluid coffee proper and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennis caused to pass through the mat and base 55 sylvania, have inventeda new and useful while being properly strained by said mat.

Improvement in Coffee-Pots, which improve- L designates a percolator which is provided ment is fully set forth in-the followingspecifiat its upper portion with the outwardly or cation and accompanying drawings. laterally deflected lip M, whereby it is sup-- My invention relates to an improvement ported upon the flangeG, said percolator be- 60 in coffee-pots; and it consists of a strainer ing provided with thebase P, which has pertherefor having a perforated base, a mat forations Q in substantially every portion thereon, and means for preventing the pasthereof,whereby the boiling water introduced sage of the ground coffee under said mat, as into the percolator will be evenly distributed will be hereinafter described. in fine streams over every portion of the 65 It further consists of novel details of conground coffee on the mat H.

struction, all as will be hereinafter fully set The operation is as follows: .The percolator forth, and particularly pointed out in the L is first removed from the position seen in claim. Fig. 1 and the desired amount of coffee is Figure 1 representsavertioal sectional view placed upon the mat or material 11 within the 70 of a coffee-pot embodying my invention. Fig. vessel C. The percolator is next restored and 2 represents a plan View of the filtering deboiling water poured thereinto, and through vice employed. A, the perforated base said water will be evenly Similar letters of reference indicate corre distributed upon every portion of the coffee sponding parts in the drawings. within the vessel '0 and the ground coffee 75 Referring to the drawings, A designates a on the mat subjected to said water, so that coffee-pot, the same being provided at the the fluid coffee will be found to be of supe upper portion thereof with an annular inrior quality, strength, and flavor, free from turned bead 13, upon which is supported the grounds. inner depending vessel 0 by means of the The perforations of the base Gare large, so 80 3o laterally-extendingflange O. The lower porthat under ordinary circumstances they are tion of said vessel has the outer annular unsuitable for purposes of percolation; but flange or lip D, which is engaged by-the anthe filtering bed or 'mat that is imposed on nular wall E of thebase portion F, which latsaid base covers said perforations and so ter is provided with perforations G,over which forms aproper percolator, the perforated base 85 3 5 is placed a mat H, of supporting and strainas such simply'forming the support for said ing or filtering material, for the coffee. mat.

J designates a gutter in the periphery of It will be particularly noticed that the gut the base or base portion F, the same receivter J, which is imperforate, depends below ing the peripheral portion of the mat H, so the base F of the vessel, at the lower corner 0 40 that said mat completely fills the space at the of the latter, and the peripheral portion of bottom of the vessel 0, while its peripheral the filtering-mat is deflected downwardly, so portion enters the gutter J, as above referred as to enter said gutter, whereby the cofieeto, it being noticed that the lower edge of the grounds about the side wall of the vessel will side of thevessel C and the periphery of the lodge on said peripheral portion and tightly 5 base F are opposite to each other, so as to press down the same against said gutter as a form a neck which engages with the contiguseal, thus preventing the grounds from es-' ous parts of the peripheral portion of the mat, caping under the edgeof the mat and passing thus holding the latter, by which provision through the perforations of the base into the the mat is prevented from rising, and the lower chamber of the pot. 100

ground coffee on the mat and the water in the It is evident that the mat may be readily vessel are prevented from passing under the out out or otherwise produced into disk shape,

it avoiding bags, sacks, or the like appliances I a perforated base-piece, in combination with requiring to be suspended from above. an imperforate gutter whose outer Wall is se- 15 Should some of the ground coffee enter the cured to said side piece and Whose inner Wall gutter between the deflected end of the mat is secured to and supports said perforated 5 and outside wall of said gutter, it will pack base, and a mat which is supported on said against said deflected end and force the latter base and has its peripheral portion deflected against the inside wall of the gutter, thus indownwardly, said gutter depending below 20 creasingthe sealing action of said ground eofsaid base and said deflected portion of the fee around the periphery of the mat. 1 mat entering said base. 10 Having thus described myinvention, what I I claim as new, and desire to Sean re by Letters I Witnesses: Patent, is JOHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, A vessel formed of a closed side piece and VVM. G. WVIEDERSHEIM.

FINLEY ACKER. 

